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The Role of the Higgs Boson

The Higgs boson was the last particle of the Standard Model to be discovered. It is a critical component of the Standard Model. Its discovery helps confirm the mechanism by which fundamental particles get mass. These fundamental particles of the Standard Model are the quarks, leptons, and force-carrier particles.